I?ve stepped out of my comfort zone more in my one year of being there than I ever did during the two years
at my other high school because VVS is such an incredibly warm and supportive community.
Some of these YouTube English - project videos have received as many as 20,000 hits, in part because
teachers at other high schools use them to engage their students.
While I find students are generally strong in recognizing alternative perspectives in an academic way — for example, analyzing different arguments on why the American Revolution took place — I think there is a shortfall when it comes to empathizing with people outside their demographic,» he says, adding that he saw the same
pattern at other high schools where he has taught in the past.
June Jordan, under some special regulations that SFUSD adopted when small schools were the miracle fad du jour a few years ago, is exempt from many teacher hiring rules, so that the administrators have far more control over who teaches there than
at other high schools.
I don't see any more or less problems at Mingus than
at any other high school.